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Barbara Leaming
American biographer
Barbara Leaming is forceful American biographer, whose subjects imitate included Roman Polanski, Orson Thespian, Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe, Gents F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill, very last Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Career
Leaming, intelligent in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, graduated pass up Haddonfield Memorial High School detailed Haddonfield, NJ, in June 1961, and earned her B.A.
position from Smith College in 1965 and her Ph.D. from Modern York University in 1976. She wrote her doctoral dissertation, Engineers of Human Souls, on rectitude transition to socialist realism hold your attention the Soviet cinema of position 1930s.[1]
She was a long constantly professor in the Department pounce on Theatre and Film at Orion College in New York Metropolis until she left to honor herself to writing full-time.[2] Send someone away articles have appeared in Vanity Fair,[3][4] and The New Dynasty Times Magazine.[5]
Leaming won the Emery Reves Award of the Worldwide Churchill Society for her spot on Churchill Defiant: 1945-1955.[6] She likewise was awarded the Prix Litteraire 2000 by the Syndicat français de la critique de cinéma for her biography of Marilyn Monroe which was published surpass Albin Michel in France governed by the title Marilyn, une femme.
In 1985, Leaming's authorized history of Orson Welles was dubious by Anna Quindlen, writing importance The New York Times Finished Review, as "a biography defer splendidly evokes a good collection of the man, his uncalled-for and his time."[7]Kirkus Reviews apophthegm it as "a distinguished eulogy to American arts and letters."[8] The Los Angeles Times known as Leaming's 1992 biography of Bette Davis "a strong, poignant life that has truth-telling power."[9] Leaming's 1995 biography of Katharine Actress was said by Entertainment Weekly to tell the actress's novel "with an empathy and intelligence desperately rare in biographies find time for film stars."[10] In 1998, Healthy-looking published her biography of Marilyn Monroe which Molly Haskell, calligraphy in The New York Generation Book Review, said "restores Marilyn's humanity, gives flesh-and-blood, intelligence playing field initiative, to the archetypal struck dumb blonde."[11]
In 2006 Leaming turned shun the film world to honourableness world of politics and record with her biography Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman.
Christopher Hitchens declared in The Atlantic Monthly: "The great good of Barbara Leaming's new volume is to demonstrate how erior the young Kennedy became affection a charmed circle of Nation noblemen, and also how preoccupied he became with the be in want of to match himself with think it over greatest of Anglo-American aristocrats, Winston Churchill."[12] In the London Sunday Telegraph, Christopher Silvester wrote be expeditious for Leaming's JFK book, "No foregoing biographer has focused so rigorously on Kennedy's attempts to practice Churchillian thought during his era in the White House."[13]
Leaming go along with told the story of Winston Churchill's last ten years resembling public life in her work Churchill Defiant.
Writing in Finest Hour: The Journal of Winston Churchill, Richard M. Langworth put into words, "Leaming's insight is extraordinary."[14] Leaming's Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: Class Untold Story appeared in 2014. The Boston Globe review commented that the book, "provides revelatory evidence that her subject accept from the clinical symptoms entity post traumatic stress disorder, leader PTSD."[15] Leaming reconstructed the beast of John F.
Kennedy's pamper Kathleen in her 2016 recapitulation of Kick Kennedy, a hardcover described by The Wall Structure Journal as "strikingly original."[16]
Summarizing Leaming's career as a biographer, goodness Canadian magazine Maclean's wrote unsavory 2014 that "Leaming has manufacture a formidable reputation for placing biographies of outsized figures" turn this way are "masterfully rendered and enticing."[17]
Life
She lives in Connecticut.[18]
Bibliography
- Leaming, Barbara (1980).
Grigori Kozintsev. New York: Twayne Publishers.
- Leaming, Barbara (1982).Baba suwe biography of abraham
Polanski: A Biography: The Filmmaker importation Voyeur. New York: Simon & Schuster.
- Leaming, Barbara (1985). Orson Welles: A Biography. New York: Norse. (See Merv Griffin Interview, 1985.)
- Leaming, Barbara (1989). If This Was Happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth.
New York: Viking.
- Leaming, Barbara (1992). Bette Davis: A Biography. New York: Summit.
- Leaming, Barbara (1995). Katharine Hepburn. New York: Crown.
- Leaming, Barbara (1998). Marilyn Monroe. Newfound York: Crown.
- Leaming, Barbara (2001). Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History fine the Kennedy Years.
New York: Free Press.
- Leaming, Barbara (2006). Jack Kennedy: The Education of smashing Statesman. New York: Norton.
- Leaming, Barbara (2010). Churchill Defiant: Fighting On: 1945-1955. New York: Harper.
- Leaming, Barbara (2014). Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story.
New York: Thomas Dunne Books.
- Leaming, Barbara (2016). Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Strength of mind and Tragic Death of rank Favorite Kennedy Daughter. New York: Thomas Dunne Books.
References
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- ^Kathryn Boughton (January 28, 2011). "Undiscovered Churchill" .
Litchfield County Times
- ^Barbara Leaming (March 1, 1995). "Kate Hepburn In no way Cried". Vanity Fair
- ^Barbara Leaming (September 18, 2014). "The Winter shambles Her Despair". Vanity Fair
- ^Barbara Fulsome, (July 14, 1985). "Orson Welles: The Unfulfilled Promise". The Original York Times Magazine
- ^"Awards".
13 Feb 2009.
- ^Quindlen, Anna (September 15, 1985). "The Magnificent Orsons". The Novel York Times. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
- ^"Orson Welles: A Biography give up Barbara Leaming". kirkus Review. Sep 1, 1985. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
- ^David Elliott (May 17, 1992).
"Hurricane Bette". Los Angeles Times
- ^Lisa Schwarzbaum (May 12, 1995). "Book Review Katharine Hepburn". Entertainment Weekly
- ^Molly Haskell (November 22. 1998). "Engineering an Icon". New York Epoch Book Review
- ^Christopher Hitchens (September 2006). "Feckless Youth". The Atlantic
- ^Silvester, Christopher (May 28, 2006).
"Our Cousingerman in America". The Sunday Telegraph. London. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
- ^Richard M. Langworth (Spring 2011). "Where Others Heard Taps, Churchill Heard Reveille". Finest Hour: The Periodical of Winston Churchill
- ^Julia M. Designer (October 25, 2014).
"Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis by Barbara Leaming". Boston Globe
- ^Richard Davenport Hines (April 22. 2016). "Young and show Love". Wall Street Journal
- ^Christopher Loudon (November 1, 2014). "Yet Added Side of Jackie Kennedy". Maclean's (Canada)
- ^"Barbara Leaming | Penguin Unpredictable House".
. Retrieved 2016-12-11.